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May 26, 2021 TO: Members of the Wisconsin Legislature FROM: Cory Nettles and Mark Bugher, Wisconsin Fund Coalition RE: $100-million state investment in a Wisconsin Fund As the Wisconsin Legislature considers joining its neighbors in the creation of a statewide venture capital “fund of funds,” lawmakers should not buy...

The unrelenting feud between Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the Republican controlled state Legislature was in full bloom this month as lawmakers scrapped nearly 400 items from Evers’ proposed budget and decided to start from scratch using the current budget as a base. Were there any...

When lawmakers on the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee began the process of retooling Gov. Tony Evers’ budget, one item that survived was a $100 million venture capital “fund of funds.” The proposal by Evers, a Democrat, has the support of eight former secretaries of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and...